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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Actor Orlando Bloom posted a picture his new tattoo on Instagram. What he didn’t know was that the tattoo artist misspelled his son’s name. The tattoo was of his son’s name in Morse code, but was missing a single dot, so instead of Flynn, the tattoo said Frynn. Several of his Instagram followers alerted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
In “Life Beyond the Law,” Daryl Watts writes, “As my six-year-old daughter’s birthday party approached, I tried to coach her on how to be gracious about gifts. Even as a young child, she already had a reputation for brutal honesty. I asked her, “What do you say if you get a gift you don’t like?” She…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Andrea Cammelleri fought the parking citation she received in 2014 and won on appeals because the lawmakers failed to include a comma between the words “vehicle” and “camper” Since her pickup does not fit the description of a “motor vehicle camper,” she argued that the law did not apply to her case.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When Ira Karmiol paid his $278.00 electric bill online, he mistakenly entered an extra digit and paid The Public Service Company of New Mexico $2,787.00. He didn’t notice the error for a few days. When he discovered the error, he contacted the company who said they would act on his refund request in…
Scott Cody • Illustration • • 21 views
"Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed any one, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices." -Clarence Darrow
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 28 views
Thousands of dollars washed away as a newly engaged couple learned a tough lesson. A local couple's engagement went awry after the bride-to-be dropped the ring into the ocean. Slipping away into the sea. Thousands of dollars washed away as a newly engaged couple learned a tough lesson. A Massachusetts…
Bible Study
Andrew Norvelle • Illustration • • 488 views
Culling the Army of God Purpose: To equip saints to be effective soldiers in the Lord's Army. Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved…
Illustration • • 25 views
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
The Missouri legislature wanted to do something about the amount of litter showing up in the states waterways. Much of modern litter is the remains of Styrofoam coolers. They thought the solution was in a law they passed banning the offending coolers from Missouri rivers. Their law banned the substance…
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Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools. Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International…
Benjamin Kurz • Illustration • • 114 views
On Jesus way to Jerusalem (to die), He had to pass through the same desert in which He was tempted. Maybe Satan's temptations rang in His ears..."maybe there's another way..." Jesus last words to His disciples before coming this way was "we need to confront the gates of Hell." When Jesus entered Jerusalem,…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 12 views
A circus owner walked into a restaurant to see everyone crowded around a table watching a little show. On the table was an upside down pot and a duck tap dancing on it. The circus owner was so impressed that he offered to buy the duck from its owner. After some wheeling and dealing they settled for $10,000…
Illustration • • 34 views
LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE Dr. Paul Brand was speaking to a medical college in India on "Let your light so shine before men that they may behold your good works and glorify your Father." In front of the lectern was an oil lamp, with its cotton wick burning from the shallow dish of oil. As he preached,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
EVANGELISM In the book, 10 Things I Hate About Christianity, author Jason T. Berggren presents a unique challenge to believers. Berggren says, ”Consider no longer calling yourself a Christian.” He writes, “Take a few minutes to think about what it would mean if you had to stop using that term to describe…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Vengeance Have you ever heard someone downplay a scriptural command because it is in the Old Testament? I've heard it a million times, especially when it comes to God's command for people to tithe. Matthew 5:17 should set this record straight. Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1,982 views
Happiness In Matthew 5, Jesus begins a sentence with the same words, “Blessed are...” eight different times. What does it mean to be blessed? It is a religious sounding word, isn’t it? It is pregnant with virtue–a stained glass sort of a word. The truth is, the Greek word simply means happy. In English,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 32 views
DEATH After Greg Delmain graduated from college, but before he could start his new job, he had to bring evidence of his U.S. citizenship to a clerk at the company. The clerk took his driver’s license and jotted down some notes in his file. She gave it back to Greg and took his birth certificate. For…
Illustration • • 336 views
John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
Kathleen Boozer • Illustration • • 234 views
#1 — The Conflict In God’s FamilyPlease press the microphone to listen to the talk. Requires the free RealPlayer®. Installation instructions available. “The Conflict In God’s Family” — another look at the Biblical basis for understanding the plan of salvation as God’s provision for restoring peace in…
Peter McCreary • Illustration • • 15 views
1. What the Lord is giving me at this time for my series 2. The Lord has not moved me away from the conviction of preaching and teaching the basics 3. Steroid use by professional athletes is an illustration I would like to use and how the average, everyday coach, parent or teacher would deal with it…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 129 views
I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 950 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…